Mental Health and Wellbeing Platform, Spectrum.Life Raises a Further €5 million
Spectrum.Life, a leading provider of mental health and wellbeing services for insurers, employers, employees, and students is pleased to announce the successful completion of a €5 million raise, resulting in a total of €9 million raised for the company. The round, again led by Act Venture Capital, included strong participation from existing and new investors.
This investment comes at a time when alternative and new approaches to mental health provision are of critical importance as traditional channels are increasingly overburdened and waiting lists in the sector continue to grow.
Spectrum.Life has set itself apart fro...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT ACT ACT Venture Capital Clinical Efficacy Debbie Rennick Digital Health EAP Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Holistic Care mental health Mental Wellbeing Spectrum.Life Source Type: blogs
TBD Health Raises $4.4M Seed Round to Expand its Hybrid Sexual Healthcare Offerings Nationally
As Reproductive Rights are Defunded and Debated Nationally, TBD Health Aims to Democratize Access to Inclusive Sexual Care
TBD Health, a sexual healthcare provider revolutionizing the medical landscape through unparalleled digital and in-person clinical care, today announced a $4.4 million seed round led by Tusk Venture Partners, with participation from Springdale Ventures, Human Ventures, Expansion VC, Starbloom Capital, Hyphen Capital, and The Community Fund along with several strategic angels. With this new financing, TBD Health is expanding to all 50 states, democratizing access to its sexual healthcare offerings, co...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT At-Home STD Testing Bradley Tusk Daphne Chen Emergency Contraception Expansion VC Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Human Ventures Hyphen Capital Inclusive Sexual Care Repro Source Type: blogs
Opinions on intelligence: An Arab perspective - ScienceDirect
Opinions on intelligence: An Arab perspective - ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289623000120?via%3Dihub The issue of cultural differences in how the concept of intelligence is understood has long been debated. But do such differences really exist and, if so, to what extent do they exist and between which cultures are they the most pronounced? To better understand this, we translated a survey from Warne and Burton (2020) on beliefs about intelligence into Arabic, distributed it among psychology and non-psychology students and lecturers at universities within the Arab worl...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - February 14, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Joins Employers Dropping College Degree Requirements
Marc JoffePennsylvania recently followedColorado,Maryland, andUtah in dropping college graduation requirements for many state jobs. This change will ease the task of filling positions in a competitive job market and may increase the diversity of the public sector workforce. But it could also steepen the enrollment decline now afflicting many state colleges and universities.In hisfirst executive order, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro opened up 65,000 state government positions to applicants without college degrees. In the order, Governor Shapiro stated “modernizing the Commonwealth’s hiring model to a model...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with Disabilities Act and Post-Secondary Educational Attainment
Nicholas Reinarts (Middle Tennessee State University), Vitor Melo (Clemson University), ADA to Ph.D.? The Americans with Disabilities Act and Post-Secondary Educational Attainment (2023): The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 requires employers and universities to provide accommodations to employees... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 31, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Data Privacy Day 2023: Where Data Privacy Policy Stands at the Start of 2023?
Jennifer HuddlestonSaturday, January 28 is Data Privacy Day.These days, Data Privacy Day can feel more like (the classic film) Groundhog Day with each passing year seeing more of the same doubling down on problematic policy trends. The state patchwork of data privacy laws continues to grow, a more regulatory European approach impacts companies and consumers well beyond its borders, and Congress tries but fails to advance a federal framework despite bipartisan support. The policy debate over data privacy may be less prominent in headlines than other tech policy topics, but it remains critically important to both innovators ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jennifer Huddleston Source Type: blogs
Data Privacy Day 2023: Where Data Privacy Policy Stands at the Start of 2023
Jennifer HuddlestonSaturday, January 28 is Data Privacy Day.These days, Data Privacy Day can feel more like (the classic film) Groundhog Day with each passing year seeing more of the same doubling down on problematic policy trends. The state patchwork of data privacy laws continues to grow, a more regulatory European approach impacts companies and consumers well beyond its borders, and Congress tries but fails to advance a federal framework despite bipartisan support. The policy debate over data privacy may be less prominent in headlines than other tech policy topics, but it remains critically important to both innovators ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jennifer Huddleston Source Type: blogs
Using Design Thinking to Advance SDOH Data Exchange Initiatives
The following is a guest article by Sarah Samis, VP, Public Health Products & Platforms at GCOM.
Chronic diseases, which most Americans have at least one of, are the leading causes of death and disability in the U.S. These ongoing and usually incurable diseases account for more than 80% of hospital admissions, 90% of prescriptions filled, and 75% of all physician’s visits. Two-thirds of all deaths are caused by five chronic diseases in particular: heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Preventing and managing chronic disease is not solely a job for an individual and thei...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT cancer CDC Center for Disease Control Chronic Diseases Chronic Illness Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Data Exchange Design Thinking diabetes GCOM Heart Source Type: blogs
Only 45 Percent of Employment ‐Based Green Cards Went to Workers in 2021
Alex NowrastehThe immigration system of the United States favors family reunification even in the so-called employment-based (EB) green card categories. Under current interpretations of U.S. immigration law, family members of immigrant workers must use EB green cards. The American system isn ’t unusual as Japan is the onlyOECD country with more immigrant workers than immigrant family members. Still, the difference is larger in the United States than in other countries. Instead of a separate green card category for the spouses and children of workers, those family members get a green card thatwould otherwise have gone to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 12, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Ref 6581/22, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development
About WesternWestern Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led university, located at the heart of Australia ’s fastest-growing and economically significant region, Western Sydney. Boasting 11 campuses – many in Western Sydney CBD locations – and more than 200,000 alumni, 49,500 students and 3,500 staff, the University has 14 Schools with an array of well-designed programs and degrees carefully struc tured to meet the demands of future industry.The University is ranked in the top two per cent of universities worldwide, and as a research leader, over 85 per cent of the University ’s assessed rese...
Source: Talking Brains - January 12, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Real Change for Physician Practices According to MGMA President
88% of MGMA’s physician practice members say that workforce issues are creating financial challenges for them. Add to that high inflation, supply chain problems, as well as personal safety concerns and it’s not surprising to see why some see a bleak future for practices. Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright, sees a reason for hope and is working alongside her MGMA colleagues to push for long-term solutions that will help reduce the industry’s pain in the years ahead.
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright, President and CEO of MGMA, at the 2022 annual conference (#MPE22) to get her take on the current state o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Administration Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT #MPE22 Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright healthcare culture change Healthcare Workforce healthcare workforce challenge MGMA MGMA 2022 Physician Practices Source Type: blogs
New Leading Equity and Advancing Diversity MSTP Funding Opportunity and Upcoming Webinar
This past February, we shared our plans to develop a program to broaden the types of institutions participating in NIH-funded dual-degree training programs. We’re pleased to announce that the Leading Equity and Advancing Diversity in the Medical Scientist Training Program (LEAD MSTP) funding opportunity announcement has been published (PAR-23-030). The LEAD MSTP aims to develop a diverse pool of highly trained clinician-scientists who meet the nation’s biomedical research needs. The program supports dual-degree training programs at institutions that haven’t historically been well represented among NIGMS-funded M...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 30, 2022 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Meetings/Events Training/Fellowships/Career Development Biomedical Graduate Education Predoctoral Webinars Source Type: blogs
America, the intolerant
BY ANISH KOKA
Historically, the great tension between liberty and authority was between government as embodied by the ruling class and its subjects. Marauding barbarians and warring city-states meant that society endowed a particular class within society with great powers to protect the weaker members of society. It was quickly recognized that the ruling class could use these powers for its own benefit on the very people it was meant to protect, and so society moved to preserve individual liberties first by recognizing certain rights that rulers dare not breach lest they risk rebellion. The natural nex...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Anish Koka COVID-19 in-hospital death Source Type: blogs
Ferrobot Swarms for Rapid Viral Testing
At the University of California Los Angeles, scientists have developed a handheld lab kit that can conduct automated pooled testing for viral diseases, including COVID-19. The technology consists of a microfluidic platform that relies on swarms of magnetic discs, which the researchers have termed “ferrobots”, to shuttle samples through the device and mix them with reagents before reaching an area where a loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay takes place.
The assay amplifies hallmark nucleic acid signatures and allows for rapid identification of a viral pathogen. Cleverly, the device is designed with rapi...
Source: Medgadget - November 18, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Public Health ucla Source Type: blogs
Post doctoral and doctoral opportunities at Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain)
FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATE POSITION – Signal Processing in Neuroimaging group at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.euINFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITION Position: PostdoctoralResearcher Profile: R2, Recognised Researcher (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent) / R3, Established Researcher(Researchers who have developed a level of independence)Number of vacancies: 1Project: OpenLocation: Spain> Donostia-San SebastianResearch Field: Cognitive NeuroscienceJob Statu...
Source: Talking Brains - November 9, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
